call to mind

Verb

call to mind (third-person singular simple present calls to mind, present participle calling to mind, simple past and past participle called to mind)

1. To intentionally think about; to reflect upon.
   • […]she could take no rest: for if she waked, she began to call to minde his beautie, and thinking to beguile such thoughts with sleepe, she then dreamed of his perfection[…]1588, Robert Greene, The Historie of Dorastus and Fawnia, published 1902
   • And so father, calling to mind his death on the cross, and his perfect sacrifice made once for the sins of all men; and […]1980, The Alternative Service book, Church of England
2. To cause to think about; to evoke.
   • It is allowed that his tones are full and soft, and that his performance called to mind that of the celebrated Rhode;[…]1829, “Varieties”, in The Athenæum and Literary Chronicle, Volume 1 (90): 446
   • The painting calls to mind the description in Xenophon of how the animal was driven into the net and killed.1929, Mary Hamilton Swindler, Ancient Painting: from the earliest times to the period of Christian art, page 101

   Synonyms:

   bring to mind